TY - GEN
T1 - Why bad coffee? explaining agent plans with valuings
AU - Winikoff, Michael
AU - Dignum, Virginia
AU - Dignum, Frank
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - An important issue in deploying an autonomous system is how to enable human users and stakeholders to develop an appropriate level of trust in the system. It has been argued that a crucial mechanism to enable appropriate trust is the ability of a system to explain its behaviour. Obviously, such explanations need to be comprehensible to humans. We argue that it makes sense to build on the results of extensive research in social sciences that explores how humans explain their behaviour. Using similar concepts for explanation is argued to help with comprehensibility, since the concepts are familiar. Following work in the social sciences, we propose the use of a folk-psychological model that utilises beliefs, desires, and “valuings”. We propose a formal framework for constructing explanations of the behaviour of an autonomous system, present an (implemented) algorithm for giving explanations, and present evaluation results.
AB - An important issue in deploying an autonomous system is how to enable human users and stakeholders to develop an appropriate level of trust in the system. It has been argued that a crucial mechanism to enable appropriate trust is the ability of a system to explain its behaviour. Obviously, such explanations need to be comprehensible to humans. We argue that it makes sense to build on the results of extensive research in social sciences that explores how humans explain their behaviour. Using similar concepts for explanation is argued to help with comprehensibility, since the concepts are familiar. Following work in the social sciences, we propose the use of a folk-psychological model that utilises beliefs, desires, and “valuings”. We propose a formal framework for constructing explanations of the behaviour of an autonomous system, present an (implemented) algorithm for giving explanations, and present evaluation results.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85053903599&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-99229-7_47
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-99229-7_47
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783319992280
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 521
EP - 534
BT - Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security - SAFECOMP 2018 Workshops, ASSURE, DECSoS, SASSUR, STRIVE, and WAISE, Proceedings
A2 - Bitsch, F.
A2 - Skavhaug, A.
A2 - Gallina, B.
A2 - Schoitsch, E.
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - Workshops: ASSURE, DECSoS, SASSUR, STRIVE, and WAISE 2018 co-located with 37th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security, SAFECOMP 2018
Y2 - 18 September 2018 through 21 September 2018
ER -